Recent content by consptheory77

I have been hobbling along for a few years now with the Microsoft Surface Go 3, which was about $700 when I bought it. It's seriously underpowered, but it was just enough for my mobile streaming services function. Now I have to money to spend 2K on a higher end laptop, but I am having trouble...

Long story short: when I eliminated everything else, the problem turned out to be the overclocking. I simply reverted back to stock settings, I haven't had a shutdown since, it's been running 24/7 without a hitch, wakes up from sleep no problem. It seems odd that it would only choose to...

I believe the problem was, partly, "System unattended sleep timeout". https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/72133-add-system-unattended-sleep-timeout-power-options-windows.html Once I set this hidden setting to 'zero', I do not appear to have the problem with the monitor being unable to wake up...

I wound up buying a 3080 FE from a professional refurb company for about $500, which seems to be about the best price one can get unless one is lucky at an auction. Shipped in the original box, looks practically new. I suppose the MSI or the Galax would have been fine, but my instincts about...

I did wind up trying the Thermalright TF9, it went on like bubble gum, it would not spread, I said screw this, got out my eight year old syringe of MX-4, it spread easy, temps on new CPU are just fine.

I recently build myself a new desktop system: 13600K on MSI MAG Z790 with Win11 Pro and 3080 GPU The system is about a month old, the GPU was installed maybe a week ago. What has been happening is that I run my desktop 24-7, always have, and I have set the Power Options on this desktop to...

One thing I have noticed so far is that Galax/KFA2 seems to have retained the habit of the weird cover art that used to adorn GPU boxes and has now gone out of vogue since I don't know when.

Case is Lian Li Lancool III, brand new PSU is Corsair Shift 1000W, brand new

So I've finished my build otherwise, and now it's time to add a graphics card. I decided on the 3080 or the 4070. I am definite on getting a Nvidia. I want 4K@60fps gaming. I want to use Stable Diffusion. Power efficiency aside, they seem relatively equal. Aesthetically, I prefer the...

This fellow here has a video on overclocking the 13600K simply (and only the 13600K) How to overclock Intel's awesome Core i5-13600K to 5.5GHz! Now, I know someone who has the chip and did 5.8 Ghz on 1.4 volts I tried this, but ETU gave me a lower score, there was throttling of both the power...

Lian Li Lancool III, no additional fans than what came with the case Deep Cool AK620 for the CPU, supposedly "80% of a Noctua for 50% of the price"

I have a 13600K I am running in a Z790 MSI Tomahawk, and I am trying to see the best approach to overclock it. I surmise may would say "always do it manually" I ran Intel ETU first, and it said I had an excellent bin. Setting the Speed Optimizer it gave me a max of 5.4 Ghz@1.6v, when default...

"Ryan, be careful what you shoot at. Most things in here don't react too well to bullets." lol and this guy did it all the wrong ways View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDUZRNp4pxg&ab_channel=JayzTwoCents but, I got my new motherboard, assembled it on the box, while wearing socks and...

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/z4va34/contact_frame_necessary_for_z790_bords/ "Just be aware that there are issues with the Thermal Grizzly frame fitting some Z790 motherboards, the included ILM screws on these boards are only 1/4", which isn't long enough to mount the TG frame, and...

"Z790 motherboards tend to be thicker than Z690" Thermalgrizzly told one user who had problems threading the screws into the frame